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#Starmer's ''reforms' have taken the UK's #HouseOfLords from 85% appointed cronies to 96% appointed #cronies. He ejected the 92 #HereditaryPeers, but kept the 26 bishops and about 700 cronies.

It's over a century since the Parliament Act 1911 promised the UK an elected upper house, but not "immediately". The number of elected members remains 0%. Zilch. Nada. Nothing.

96% appointed cronies. And they call it "democracy".

#ukpol #rotten #YCMTSU

I did not know Am^zon's "Mel^nia" was getting a 1.6 out of 10 on IMDB Internet Movie Database. I did not know that you could vote to rank this film (you have to sign in, I had trouble logging in to my account).
$28M to Mel@nia. $75M on the documentary, just ridiculous overspend ($40M rights + $35M promotions).
#JeffBezos #bribe #documentary #money #laundering #fascist #USA #movie #rotten #tomatoes #rating #IMDB #internet #movie #database #genius #visa #EB1A #GreenCard
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35291758/

I did not know Am^zon's "Mel^nia" was getting a 1.6 out of 10 on IMDB Internet Movie Database. I did not know that you could vote to rank this film (you have to sign in, I had trouble logging in to my account).
$28M to Mel@nia. $75M on the documentary, just ridiculous overspend ($40M rights + $35M promotions).
#JeffBezos #bribe #documentary #money #laundering #fascist #USA #movie #rotten #tomatoes #rating #IMDB #internet #movie #database #genius #visa #EB1A #GreenCard
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35291758/

I did not know Am^zon's "Mel^nia" was getting a 1.6 out of 10 on IMDB Internet Movie Database. I did not know that you could vote to rank this film (you have to sign in, I had trouble logging in to my account).
$28M to Mel@nia. $75M on the documentary, just ridiculous overspend ($40M rights + $35M promotions).
#JeffBezos #bribe #documentary #money #laundering #fascist #USA #movie #rotten #tomatoes #rating #IMDB #internet #movie #database #genius #visa #EB1A #GreenCard
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35291758/

I did not know Am^zon's "Mel^nia" was getting a 1.6 out of 10 on IMDB Internet Movie Database. I did not know that you could vote to rank this film (you have to sign in, I had trouble logging in to my account).
$28M to Mel@nia. $75M on the documentary, just ridiculous overspend ($40M rights + $35M promotions).
#JeffBezos #bribe #documentary #money #laundering #fascist #USA #movie #rotten #tomatoes #rating #IMDB #internet #movie #database #genius #visa #EB1A #GreenCard
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35291758/

https://www.europesays.com/it/389432/ Morto il rapper Dot Rotten, aveva 37 anni. Considerato un pilastro del «Grime», aveva collaborato anche con Ed Sheeran #artista #ArtistaTrovasse #ArtistaTrovasseGambia #artisti #bbc #britannica #contratto #ContrattoMercury #decesso #dettagli #dot #DotRotten #ellis #EllisStevenson #Entertainment #età #famiglia #FamigliaBbc #gambia #grime #Intrattenimento #IT #Italia #Italy #joseph #JosephEllis #Music #Musica #rapper #rotten #serie #sheeran #singolo #the

Dot Rotten dies aged 37 as tributes flow for British grime rapper

Reports have suggested the rapper died in Gambia, although no official details surrounding his death have been confirmed…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #37 #after #Aged #as #british #CA #Canada #Died #dies #DOT #Entertainment #FLOW #for #grime #have #poured #rapper #reported #rotten #tributes
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/526625/

Dot Rotten dies aged 37 as tributes flow for British grime rapper

Reports have suggested the rapper died in Gambia, although no official details surrounding his death have been confirmed…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #37 #after #aged #as #British #died #dies #dot #Entertainment #FLOW #for #Grime #have #poured #rapper #reported #rotten #tributes #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/467559/

Dot Rotten dies aged 37 as tributes flow for British grime rapper

Reports have suggested the rapper died in Gambia, although no official details surrounding his death have been confirmed…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #37 #after #aged #as #AU #Australia #british #died #dies #DOT #Entertainment #FLOW #for #grime #have #poured #rapper #reported #rotten #tributes
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/530644/

Dot Rotten dies aged 37 as tributes flow for British grime rapper

Reports have suggested the rapper died in Gambia, although no official details surrounding his death have been confirmed…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #37 #after #aged #as #AU #Australia #british #died #dies #DOT #Entertainment #FLOW #for #grime #have #poured #rapper #reported #rotten #tributes
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/530644/

Dot Rotten dies aged 37 as tributes flow for British grime rapper

Reports have suggested the rapper died in Gambia, although no official details surrounding his death have been confirmed…
#NewsBeep #News #Music #37 #after #aged #as #AU #Australia #british #died #dies #DOT #Entertainment #FLOW #for #grime #have #poured #rapper #reported #rotten #tributes
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/530644/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/377311/ Dot Rotten dies aged 37 as tributes flow for British grime rapper #37 #after #aged #as #British #died #dies #dot #Éire #Entertainment #FLOW #for #Grime #have #IE #Ireland #Music #poured #Rapper #reported #rotten #Tributes

Tributes paid as grime star Dot Rotten dies aged 37

https://misryoum.com/us/trending/tributes-paid-as-grime-star-dot-rotten-dies/

After receiving exposure on Rinse FM and SB:TV, he won a recording contract with Mercury Records, and made a number of guest appearances on other artists' records, including Ed Sheeran's Goodbye to You, Mz Bratt's Speeding By and Cher Lloyd's...

#Tributes #paid #grime #star #Dot #Rotten #dies #aged #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

@MissGayle IMO in 4th world country Czech Republic, EU🇪🇺, onions are practically unavailable. Majority of them is moldy (incl. between the peels something which looks like Aspergillus niger) or rotten, I don't want to risk cancer from mold toxins like aflatoxin, ochratoxin. In 3rd world developing dictatorship Cambodia the situation was the same except spring onions were not rotten.

I already sent 2 complaints to the Czech state food quality inspectorate. They wrote they went to both supermarkets and in #1 the amount of moldy and rotten pieces was within EU🇪🇺 standards (IMO EU🇪🇺 standards for feeding people with carcinogenic decomposing compost), which I disagree with. In #2 they said they didn't find the problem (rotten spring onion) but they found unrelated decomposing pumpkins for which they "initiated official misdemeanor procedure" or something like that, but didn't write whether they actually fined the seller.

There is no way to actually submit photographs as evidence, they always go there and do their own official sample, so IMO it's like playing an ineffective whackamole with rotten onions.

The difference to Cambodia is that there, sole proprietorships pay 0% taxes below $62 500 revenue per year and 2.73% in the next tier.

I am fine if a state says "pay less taxes, we won't check quality of vegetables, you have to haggle it yourself using market mechanisms".

But to pay developed country taxes and get developing country food quality, in that case I feel

s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Czech regime.

Recently I managed to find 1 good onion in the supermarket so I hope in the future luck will smile at me again and I won't live in malnutrition in an allegedly developed country.

#czech #czechia #czechrepublic #compost #foodquality #regime #developingcountry #developedcountry #hypocrisy #foodsafety #malnutrition #szpi #contempt #mold #moldy #rot #rotten #onion #onions #springonion #springonions

@MissGayle IMO in 4th world country Czech Republic, EU🇪🇺, onions are practically unavailable. Majority of them is moldy (incl. between the peels something which looks like Aspergillus niger) or rotten, I don't want to risk cancer from mold toxins like aflatoxin, ochratoxin. In 3rd world developing dictatorship Cambodia the situation was the same except spring onions were not rotten.

I already sent 2 complaints to the Czech state food quality inspectorate. They wrote they went to both supermarkets and in #1 the amount of moldy and rotten pieces was within EU🇪🇺 standards (IMO EU🇪🇺 standards for feeding people with carcinogenic decomposing compost), which I disagree with. In #2 they said they didn't find the problem (rotten spring onion) but they found unrelated decomposing pumpkins for which they "initiated official misdemeanor procedure" or something like that, but didn't write whether they actually fined the seller.

There is no way to actually submit photographs as evidence, they always go there and do their own official sample, so IMO it's like playing an ineffective whackamole with rotten onions.

The difference to Cambodia is that there, sole proprietorships pay 0% taxes below $62 500 revenue per year and 2.73% in the next tier.

I am fine if a state says "pay less taxes, we won't check quality of vegetables, you have to haggle it yourself using market mechanisms".

But to pay developed country taxes and get developing country food quality, in that case I feel

s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Czech regime.

Recently I managed to find 1 good onion in the supermarket so I hope in the future luck will smile at me again and I won't live in malnutrition in an allegedly developed country.

#czech #czechia #czechrepublic #compost #foodquality #regime #developingcountry #developedcountry #hypocrisy #foodsafety #malnutrition #szpi #contempt #mold #moldy #rot #rotten #onion #onions #springonion #springonions

@MissGayle IMO in 4th world country Czech Republic, EU🇪🇺, onions are practically unavailable. Majority of them is moldy (incl. between the peels something which looks like Aspergillus niger) or rotten, I don't want to risk cancer from mold toxins like aflatoxin, ochratoxin. In 3rd world developing dictatorship Cambodia the situation was the same except spring onions were not rotten.

I already sent 2 complaints to the Czech state food quality inspectorate. They wrote they went to both supermarkets and in #1 the amount of moldy and rotten pieces was within EU🇪🇺 standards (IMO EU🇪🇺 standards for feeding people with carcinogenic decomposing compost), which I disagree with. In #2 they said they didn't find the problem (rotten spring onion) but they found unrelated decomposing pumpkins for which they "initiated official misdemeanor procedure" or something like that, but didn't write whether they actually fined the seller.

There is no way to actually submit photographs as evidence, they always go there and do their own official sample, so IMO it's like playing an ineffective whackamole with rotten onions.

The difference to Cambodia is that there, sole proprietorships pay 0% taxes below $62 500 revenue per year and 2.73% in the next tier.

I am fine if a state says "pay less taxes, we won't check quality of vegetables, you have to haggle it yourself using market mechanisms".

But to pay developed country taxes and get developing country food quality, in that case I feel

s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Czech regime.

Recently I managed to find 1 good onion in the supermarket so I hope in the future luck will smile at me again and I won't live in malnutrition in an allegedly developed country.

#czech #czechia #czechrepublic #compost #foodquality #regime #developingcountry #developedcountry #hypocrisy #foodsafety #malnutrition #szpi #contempt #mold #moldy #rot #rotten #onion #onions #springonion #springonions

@MissGayle IMO in 4th world country Czech Republic, EU🇪🇺, onions are practically unavailable. Majority of them is moldy (incl. between the peels something which looks like Aspergillus niger) or rotten, I don't want to risk cancer from mold toxins like aflatoxin, ochratoxin. In 3rd world developing dictatorship Cambodia the situation was the same except spring onions were not rotten.

I already sent 2 complaints to the Czech state food quality inspectorate. They wrote they went to both supermarkets and in #1 the amount of moldy and rotten pieces was within EU🇪🇺 standards (IMO EU🇪🇺 standards for feeding people with carcinogenic decomposing compost), which I disagree with. In #2 they said they didn't find the problem (rotten spring onion) but they found unrelated decomposing pumpkins for which they "initiated official misdemeanor procedure" or something like that, but didn't write whether they actually fined the seller.

There is no way to actually submit photographs as evidence, they always go there and do their own official sample, so IMO it's like playing an ineffective whackamole with rotten onions.

The difference to Cambodia is that there, sole proprietorships pay 0% taxes below $62 500 revenue per year and 2.73% in the next tier.

I am fine if a state says "pay less taxes, we won't check quality of vegetables, you have to haggle it yourself using market mechanisms".

But to pay developed country taxes and get developing country food quality, in that case I feel

s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Czech regime.

Recently I managed to find 1 good onion in the supermarket so I hope in the future luck will smile at me again and I won't live in malnutrition in an allegedly developed country.

#czech #czechia #czechrepublic #compost #foodquality #regime #developingcountry #developedcountry #hypocrisy #foodsafety #malnutrition #szpi #contempt #mold #moldy #rot #rotten #onion #onions #springonion #springonions

@MissGayle IMO in 4th world country Czech Republic, EU🇪🇺, onions are practically unavailable. Majority of them is moldy (incl. between the peels something which looks like Aspergillus niger) or rotten, I don't want to risk cancer from mold toxins like aflatoxin, ochratoxin. In 3rd world developing dictatorship Cambodia the situation was the same except spring onions were not rotten.

I already sent 2 complaints to the Czech state food quality inspectorate. They wrote they went to both supermarkets and in #1 the amount of moldy and rotten pieces was within EU🇪🇺 standards (IMO EU🇪🇺 standards for feeding people with carcinogenic decomposing compost), which I disagree with. In #2 they said they didn't find the problem (rotten spring onion) but they found unrelated decomposing pumpkins for which they "initiated official misdemeanor procedure" or something like that, but didn't write whether they actually fined the seller.

There is no way to actually submit photographs as evidence, they always go there and do their own official sample, so IMO it's like playing an ineffective whackamole with rotten onions.

The difference to Cambodia is that there, sole proprietorships pay 0% taxes below $62 500 revenue per year and 2.73% in the next tier.

I am fine if a state says "pay less taxes, we won't check quality of vegetables, you have to haggle it yourself using market mechanisms".

But to pay developed country taxes and get developing country food quality, in that case I feel

s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards the Czech regime.

Recently I managed to find 1 good onion in the supermarket so I hope in the future luck will smile at me again and I won't live in malnutrition in an allegedly developed country.

#czech #czechia #czechrepublic #compost #foodquality #regime #developingcountry #developedcountry #hypocrisy #foodsafety #malnutrition #szpi #contempt #mold #moldy #rot #rotten #onion #onions #springonion #springonions

In a lifetime of movie making, I only ever starred in one: "Rotten to the Core." 1981. #movie #movies #moviemaking #homemovie #film #films #filmmaking #director #drama #rotten #rottentothecore #core #1980s #minneapolispremier #premier #pencildrawing #drawing #posterboard

In a lifetime of movie making, I only ever starred in one: "Rotten to the Core." 1981. #movie #movies #moviemaking #homemovie #film #films #filmmaking #director #drama #rotten #rottentothecore #core #1980s #minneapolispremier #premier #pencildrawing #drawing #posterboard

In a lifetime of movie making, I only ever starred in one: "Rotten to the Core." 1981. #movie #movies #moviemaking #homemovie #film #films #filmmaking #director #drama #rotten #rottentothecore #core #1980s #minneapolispremier #premier #pencildrawing #drawing #posterboard

In a lifetime of movie making, I only ever starred in one: "Rotten to the Core." 1981. #movie #movies #moviemaking #homemovie #film #films #filmmaking #director #drama #rotten #rottentothecore #core #1980s #minneapolispremier #premier #pencildrawing #drawing #posterboard

In a lifetime of movie making, I only ever starred in one: "Rotten to the Core." 1981. #movie #movies #moviemaking #homemovie #film #films #filmmaking #director #drama #rotten #rottentothecore #core #1980s #minneapolispremier #premier #pencildrawing #drawing #posterboard

I was poisoned by #tetracycline in the 1960s when I was a kid. TBH, I don't know if I was poisoned if my #Mom took it while #pregnant with me, or if it was given to me after I was born. Regardless, I've spent my entire life with #rotten, #ugly, #brown #teeth (even my baby teeth!) because the #medicine stripped the #enamel off them. 😢

I hope this means that no child will ever have to endure what I have.

#Breakthrough gel can regenerate #tooth enamel within weeks
https://newatlas.com/medical/protein-gel-rebuilds-tooth-enamel/

#IAmDB

#Pears. What a pain in the butt #fruit!

I buy some, wait for them to #ripen. Each day I try them - nope, not ready yet.

Then after 4 days of this - they’ve gone #rotten! My fingers go straight through the fruit.

Sorry pears, from now on I’m only going to buy #canned pears - this has happened far too often.

different grades of #decay

#rose #rosa #rotten #fea #blume #foto #photo #fotografie #photography #garden #jardin #flower

A Chain of #Rotten #Bananas in a Boiling World : Medium

#Nerve #Fibres in the #Brain could generate #Quantum #Entanglement : New Sci

Warmest temperatures in #GreatBarrierReef for 400 years : BBC

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

Heh... writing in The Times while eating Iranian #Caviar on a bit and drinking French #champagne
After the second recession in Spain that took place in 2010 during real estate bubble and collapse, I have had to eat #Moldy and #Rotten #Food
If your #Food has worms and u are #Hungry enough, u remove the worms and then u eat it.
Ifu can't remove the worms, you look the other way and eat it. Being hungry is one of the worst things there is

Heh... writing in The Times while eating Iranian #Caviar on a bit and drinking French #champagne
After the second recession in Spain that took place in 2010 during real estate bubble and collapse, I have had to eat #Moldy and #Rotten #Food
If your #Food has worms and u are #Hungry enough, u remove the worms and then u eat it.
Ifu can't remove the worms, you look the other way and eat it. Being hungry is one of the worst things there is

Heh... writing in The Times while eating Iranian #Caviar on a bit and drinking French #champagne
After the second recession in Spain that took place in 2010 during real estate bubble and collapse, I have had to eat #Moldy and #Rotten #Food
If your #Food has worms and u are #Hungry enough, u remove the worms and then u eat it.
Ifu can't remove the worms, you look the other way and eat it. Being hungry is one of the worst things there is

Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.

Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:

The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.

These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:

This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/opinion/republican-party-intrusive-government.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.

Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:

The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.

These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:

This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/opinion/republican-party-intrusive-government.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.

Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:

The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.

These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:

This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/opinion/republican-party-intrusive-government.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.

Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:

The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.

These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:

This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/opinion/republican-party-intrusive-government.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Theda Skocpol, a professor of political science and sociology at Harvard, contended that many of the developments in states controlled by Republicans are a result of careful, long-term #planning by conservative strategists, particularly those in the #Federalist #Society, who are developing tools to build what she called “#minority #authoritarianism” within the context of a nominally democratic system of government.

Skocpol outlined her thinking in an email:

The first-movers who figured out how to configure this new “laboratory of democratic constriction” were legal eagles in the Federalist Society and beyond, because the key structural dynamic in the current G.O.P. gallop toward minority authoritarianism is the mutual interlock between post-2010 Republican control, often supermajority control, of dozens of #state #legislatures and the #SCOTUS #decision in 2019 to allow even the most #extreme and bizarre forms of partisan #gerrymandering.

These organized, richly resourced actors, she wrote,
"have figured out how to #rig the current U.S. #system of #federalism and #divided #branches, given generational and geographic realities on the ground, and the in many ways fluky 2016 presidential election gave them what they needed to put the interlock in place. They are stoking and using the fears and resentments of about half or so of the G.O.P. popular base to #undo #American #democracy and #enhance their own #power and #privileges. They are doing it because they can, and they believe in what they are doing. They are America’s G.O.P. Leninists.
Skocpol did not pull her punches:

This situation, locked in place by a #corruptly #installed #Supreme #Court #majority and by many #rotten-borough #judicial #districts like the one in #Amarillo, means that minority #authoritarians, behind a bare facade of “#constitutionalism,” can render majority-elected officials, including the president and many governors, officials in name only. The great thing from the minority authoritarian point of view is that those visible chief executives (and urban mayors and district attorneys) can still be blamed for government nonfunction and societal problems, but they cannot address them with even broadly supported measures (such as simple background checks for having military assault weapons).

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